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Its high Interest Rates. North America Business correspondent Erin Delmorejoins Me now. Good to see you. Put a bit of contact around the numbers for us. Sure, so this is not the Inflation Report a lot of people were looking for because remember, we saw hotter than expected Inflation Injanuary and february today we see that data again in march. And not only is it higher than expected, but we are seeing this trend upwards. And thats not what the fed wants to see when they talk about Cutting Confederates Interest Rates this year. The expectation when wrapping up year. The expectation when wrapping up 2023 was we could see as many as three Interest Rates cuts this year, as soon asjune. But when you see inflation is sticky and persistent as we see in the data, that becomes harder to envision, and indeed when this came out at 8 30am est today, you saw the expectations for that june Interest Rates cut drop. find june Interest Rates cut drop. And how does that june Interest Rates cut drop. An
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is that for the past eight months or so we have seen a deceleration in food price inflation, so food price rises are starting to his life good news for the sector and this year volumes are expected to return to growth. if we look specifically at christmas, provided, get provided much needed respite for supermarkets. i think this supermarkets. i think this supermarkets all had a pretty much bumper christmas and we will hear from tesco, as you said, in about an hour or so, andi said, in about an hour or so, and i think as the largest supermarket chain in the country, they ve done a stellar job of defending market share. they had the budget supermarkets like aldi and lidl nipping at their heels to steal shoppers away and tempt them with lower prices plaything tesco has done a really good job to stem the tide of shoppers, switching to discounters, they ve been investing in lower prices
updates from the uk s biggest supermarket chain tesco as well as marks and spencer. on wednesday, sainsbury s reported a jump of more than 9% in sales over the past six weeks, sounding good, demand for essentials such as groceries were booming, but sainsbury s was the biggest loser on the ftse 100 yesterday, as it revealed sales in general merchandise slipped, clothing was down, and argos had a dire christmas. natalie berg is founder of the retail consultants nbk retail. good morning. it kind of tells us what we think we know which is the buying essentials, we can t live without our sprouts, milk and turkey but we are choosing not to purchase the more expensive, non essential items? more expensive, non-essential items? ., , more expensive, non-essential items? . , , more expensive, non-essential items? . , , , items? that s right. it s been a tou . h items? that s right. it s been a tough couple items? that s right. it s been a tough couple of items? that s right. it s been